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...subtitle of this work, "The Source and Genesis of Modernistic Art," describes adequately the scope of the book. Mr. Fry very ably and convincingly sets forth the thesis that modernistic art is a kind of neurosis that "has cast its baleful spell over American esthetic culture...
...reasonable manner of the real needs of the group and of the benefits which would accrue to the college as a whole by taking the proposed steps. Such an organization would give coherence and unity to the movement as well as providing a more accurate index of its scope and importance...
...this extraordinary thoughtful little essay, Mr. Brane holds that in constructing a "political science" several fundamental preliminary steps are necessary: the scope of the field of inquiry must be delimited, a "unifying concept" based on the simplest and most universal phenomenon observed within the field must be agreed on, and a "sequential" relationship among the manifold data must be established...
...politics for purposes of systematic investigation. The analysis is defective, in that when Mr. Brane introduces it, he is still obsessed by the primacy of the "state" as the concern of political science, and he fails to revise it in the light of his later extension of the scope of the subject. Still, in its restricted field, the scheme is logical and sufficient. In its broad outlines (omitting the elaborate sub-groupings), it comprises five basic elements: the state, an institution of power for social control; law, the regulation of power; government, the mechanism of power; politics, the exercise...
Both you and Mr. Lynd are right as far as you go, but neither of you seem to realize the full importance and scope of the problem which confronts you. It is not a question of whether this specific play is art, or even whether it is "nothing but a dirty book full of commonplace smut." It is rather a question which strikes at the ground work of our entire social system, namely, can censorship still be imposed upon...